Last resort: AntiX Linux for a laptop.

[Member nomko]

Hi all,

My daughters laptop is about 8 years old and having difficulties running the latest distro’s. This results in a sluggish,slow machine, high start-up times for applications and also for the laptop itself. On my quest for a solution i stumbled upon AntiX, highly recommended on some sites as the best solution for older hardware.

Here’s my daughter’s laptop specifications:

System:    Host: TravelMate-5742Z Kernel: 4.15.0-36-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
           Distro: Linux Lite 4.0 LTS base: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Acer product: TravelMate 5742Z v: V1.10 serial: <filter>
           Mobo: Acer model: TravelMate 5742Z v: V1.10 serial: <filter> BIOS: Acer v: 1.10 date: 11/18/2010
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 34.9 Wh condition: 34.9/47.5 Wh (73%) model: SONY Li_Ion_4000mA status: Full
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium P6200 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Nehalem rev: 5 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 8513
           Speed: 985 MHz min/max: 933/2133 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1059 2: 1003
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel
           bus ID: 00:02.0
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile v: 2.1 Mesa 18.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-36-generic
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: tg3
           v: 3.137 port: 3000 bus ID: 01:00.0
           IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM43225 802.11b/g/n vendor: Foxconn T77H103.00 Wireless Half-size Mini PCIe Card
           driver: wl v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0
           IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 8.17 GiB (3.5%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK2565GSX size: 232.89 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 228.23 GiB used: 8.17 GiB (3.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:      Processes: 153 Uptime: 18m Memory: 1.69 GiB used: 983.1 MiB (56.8%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0
           Shell: bash v: 4.4.19 inxi: 3.0.27 

What’s there to expect when installing AntiX? Any issues, problems, crazy things i should be aware of?

Thanks!
Nomko

I don't need Google, my wife knows everything!
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AntiX Linux running with Space IceWM desktop environment

[Member fatmac]

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Looks to be OK. You might want to have a swap partition with a low ram count there, otherwise, I don’t think you’ll need do anything but install it, Broadcom is quite well supported.

(I’d suggest 5 to 6GB for your / – plus 1.5 to 2GB swap – the rest for /home.)

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[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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don’t forget…antiX is designed to also be run in off of a live-USB, so you can try it out without installing to the hard drive.

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